Onglets

3.4.11

Au petit coin

We got a new shower curtain, which of course means that I am going to post about it, not because it's particularly interesting (altho it is a pretty fun shower curtain) but because I do not want to grade papers, of course.

Also it is an excuse to show you the new Andy Warhol cats bathroom décor. Of course you never saw the previous décor but imagine something very hodge podge tho colorful and you'll have it. Now we almost have a theme - on the walls anyway. Not sure how all my weird tins and tin toys fit in but whatever. We don't like to do TOO much cat stuff anyway, so it's just as well it be tempered with whimsical tin items and a completely wacky shower curtain.

Old shower curtain...

New shower curtain...

I actually kind of prefer the stripes, the bathroom is pretty small for all the movement the dots create. But the old one was getting super mildew-stainy on the bottom (only visible when you're in the tub but still it was getting quite gooby and no amount of washing undoes that shit) and this is the first new one I've found in MONTHS that was high enough on the fun scale. I do like that this one is white-white instead of off-white, it helps brighten up our icky cream-colored bathroom and makes up for all the dots. I surprised myself by not minding that this one is part polyester; I usually go cotton all the way for shower curtains, but the poly makes it lighter weight and I think it probably won't hold onto mildew stains so badly.

This mildew issue has only been since coming to SC. We go thru about one shower curtain every year or so (makes me feel really wasteful b/c the fabric is always still fine, just the stains are unbelievable - this one had that plastic reinforcement on top where the buttonholes for the curtain rings go and the reinforcement was starting to disintegrate so that helped me feel less guilty this time). In Auburn our fabric curtain was going on 4 years when we moved and still looked pretty much brand new every time we washed it (it would have lasted another year I guess, here, before being stained beyond acceptability but it was accidentally thrown away in the packing frenzy, along with my really fun periwinkle toilet lid cover... Ah well... :)

Without further ado... Andy Warhol cat wall (please disregard weird stains and spots on wall... if I'm here much longer I'm going to ask Sh*nnon and Alis*n if I can repaint the bathroom... for now it is pretty far down on the priority list)...

I keep debating if I should put the green one on that wall; a piece of me wants all the full cat body portraits on the same wall. But the weird baby-shit-brown one that is just the cat face (closest to orange bath mat hanging on shower rod here) looks even weirder on its own above the toilet... Then again I don't really... um... look that way when I'm spending any amount of time right there, so... :)

Wisdoms, or not

Walter: Oh, don't be ridiculous. You were abducted; of course you need crêpes.

--Fringe, 2:7 "Of Human Action"

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.

Don't go back to sleep.

You must ask for what you really want.

Don't go back to sleep.

People are going back and forth across the doorsill

where the two worlds touch.

The door is round and open.

Don't go back to sleep.

--Rumi, from Unseen Rain, (Trans. Coleman Barks)

Things just happen. What the hell.

--the philosopher Didactylos, Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

Eames: I tried Proust in college. I gave up after the first million pages.

Goren: It picks up after the second million pages.

--Law & Order: Criminal Intent, 10:4 "The Last Street in Manhattan"

Let food be thy medicine.

--Hippocrates

...There happens to be a lot about me that you don't know, Mr. Smarty Man.

--American Beauty

"...It makes me feel dangerous, like a spy, or a French person."

--Cougar Town

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

--Margaret Mead

Pourquoi tu m'appelles 'beauté' comme si ça se voyait pas?

--Camille, Janine II

I had such fuckin' hopes...

--McNulty, The Wire

I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't taunt the fear demon.

--Rupert Giles, Buffy, "Fear Itself"

The world is full of this kind of dumb smart-alec who doesn't understand anything.

--Richard Feynman

When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I worked at the college -- that my job was to teach people how to draw. She stared at me, incredulous, and said, "You mean they forget?"

--Howard Ikemoto

It's all fun and games til someone loses their row count.

--Anon. knitter

About suffering they were never wrong,

The old Masters: how well they understood

Its human position: how it takes place

While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along...

--W. H. Auden, Musée des Beaux Arts

I want some American food, dammit! I want French fries!

--Breaking Away

Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

--Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye

I did not achieve this position in life by having some snot-nose punk leave my cheese out in the wind.

I look around at this world you're so eager to be a part of, and all I see's six billion lunatics looking for the fastest ride out. Who's not crazy? Look around - everyone's drinkin', smokin', shootin' up, shootin' each other or just plain screwing their brains out because they don't want 'em anymore. I'm crazy? Honey, I'm the original one-eyed chicklet in the kingdom of the blind 'cause at least I admit the world makes me nuts.